This post is written from my own point of view, where I often get annoyed by the rules people make for programming, engineering, and business generally. But to

This post is written from my own point of view, where I often get annoyed by the rules people make for programming, engineering, and business generally. But to play devil's advocate: it's often very difficult to know exactly why we do some things, and when it would be bad to change a practice. And it's good, in my opinion, that most companies have a mix of the more independently minded engineers and more humble engineers that just want to follow the 'best practices' or trends. Those people are going to CYA, you might not always appreciate it, but if everyone was always trying to pull the rug out - it would be chaos. They give engineers like us that like to question these things room to occasionally try new approaches to streamline or improve the 'best practices', without as much risk.